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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* Tomboyish [[Bottle Fairy]] Tina Foster in ''[[Ai Yori Aoshi (Manga)|Ai Yori Aoshi]]'' has a panic attack during a thunderstorm that knocks out the house's electricity.
* Haruhi Fujioka in ''[[Ouran High School Host Club (Manga)|Ouran High School Host Club]]'' has a particular hatred of thunderstorms despite having an abnormal lack of fear of anything else. This is addressed in what is either a [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming]], or a [[Harsher in Hindsight]] [[Death Note (Manga)|instance of]] [[Hey, It's That Voice!]]
* [[Kid Samurai]] Motoko Aoyama in ''[[Love Hina (Manga)|Love Hina]]'' is said to be afraid of lightning, although it never comes up.
* [[Samurai]] Sakura Shinguuji in ''[[Sakura Taisen]]'' is in fact deathly scared of lightning. Motoko's phobia may be a reference to, or parody of, this.
* Chiyo-chan, from ''[[Azumanga Daioh (Manga)|Azumanga Daioh]]'', is a genius, ridiculously cute, and scared of lightning. In her defense, she's still only 10 years old.
** In the manga, one of the [[Yonkoma]] shows that Sakaki is also scared of lightning.
** Osaka is scared of lightning too, but she enjoys it. She even peers closer to the window. If this doesn't make sense, remember, this '''is''' [[Cloudcuckoolander|Osaka]] we're talking about.
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* It's played up for [[Fan Service]] and [[Brother-Sister Incest]] Mikan Yuki of [[To Love-Ru]] is scared of storms and Rito used to comfort her.
* In the Detectives Koshien arc from [[Detective Conan]], a storm starts when the four teenaged detectives are gathered in an old mansion {{spoiler|and one of them has actually ''been killed''}}. Once thunder breaks in, Natsuki "Detective of the South" Koshimizu [http://www.mangareader.net/139-8612-8/detective-conan/chapter-565.html screams in utter horror and collapses to the floor.] {{spoiler|She was actually ''faking'' it, to distract the others while she was searching for a piece of lost evidence that could potentially reveal her as the [[Sympathetic Murderer]] of the arc - and the one who killedher fellow sleuth. Conan and Heiji weren't fooled by her act, though, and later use it to unmask her.}}
* Filicia Heideman of ''[[SoSora Rano No wo ToWoto]]'', the only visible chink in her [[Captain Smooth and Sergeant Rough|Captain Smooth]] persona.
* In the first episode of ''[[Stitch!]]'', Yuuna is shown to be afraid of lightning.
* Nano is shown to be afraid of lightning in ''[[Nichijou]]'' when she walks her Professor to the bathroom during a storm.
* Aria from ''[[Hidan no Aria]]'' is quite afraid of thunder. This does present problems in missions where it's raining.
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* In the film ''Top Hat'', a clap of thunder momentarily causes Ginger Rogers to drop her haughty manner towards Fred Astaire.
* One of the many phobias/unreasoning terrors that the heroine experiences in Hitchock's Marnie.
* In ''[[Arashi no Yoru Nini]]'', one of the things that brings Gabu and Mei together when the first meet in a barn on a stormy night is their shared fear of thunder.
 
== [[Literature]] ==
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* Marley in ''[[Marley and Me]]'' is terrified of thunder and the frequent south Florida thunderstorms cause him to frequently destroy the house in fits of fear.
* The lesser-known character Monks in [[Oliver Twist]] is afraid of thunder, and has a good old rant about it at one point. However, in his case it is a pretty legitimate fear.
* In [[HPH.P. Lovecraft]]'s "The Lurking Fear", the Martense clan {{spoiler|and their Morlock-like degenerate descendents}} share the hereditary trait of being driven to frenzied, violent panic by thunderstorms.
* In [[Kate Di CamilloDiCamillo]]'s ''Because of Winn-Dixie'', the dog is horribly afraid of thunderstorms.
* [[James Joyce]] had a fear of thunder and lightning, which he bestowed upon Stephen Dedalus, who serves a Joyce's [[Author Avatar]] in and [[Ulysses]]. Dedalus, even though he is an atheist, sees thunderstorms as a manifestation of God's power, and believes that thunder is God's punishment against him for failing to meet the last wishes of his dead mother.
* The official iOS app of the ''[[Warrior Cats (Literature)|Warrior Cats]]'' series claims that Hollyleaf has this - justified, since Ashfur had attempted to murder her and her littermates during a thunderstorm that started a fire.
 
== [[Video Games]] ==
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*** Hell, he doesn't just forget to say his little mantra, he even MOCKS the thunder itself by declaring "Who's afraid of a little thunder?!"
** Oh, and his subordinate/boyfriend's last name is either a clever way to reinforce said subordinate's resemblance to Raiden or a really jerk-ass bit of bilingual humor. Anyone who disagrees with the previous designation is [[Ho Yay|clearly lying.]]
* Tails from the ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog]]'' series is afraid of lightning in some versions. Especially in [[Sonic the Movie|the anime OVA]]. Though the games seem to have removed this character trait, as his [[Elemental Powers|element power]] in ''[[Sonic Heroes (Video Game)|Sonic Heroes]]'' is Thunder Shoot.
* Rikku in ''[[Final Fantasy X (Video Game)|Final Fantasy X]]'' suffers this, due to a traumatic childhood experience of a mis-aimed attempt to protect her from a sea monster using lightning magic. Between that game and its sequel, ''[[Final Fantasy X 2]]'', she cures her phobia through the fairly simple method of camping for a week in the Thunder Plains, where there's ''always'' lightning. Rikku even reacts in both games to this fear -- in ''[[Final Fantasy X (Video Game)|Final Fantasy X]]'', she gives a unique scream (compared to the rest of the team) whenever she's hit with a lightning spell, and in ''[[Final Fantasy X 2 (Video Game)|Final Fantasy X 2]]'', she actually says "Astraphobic? Not me!" when actually casting Lightning spells in the Black Mage class. While anyone showing fear at having to walk through the Thunder Plains where one must literally dodge lightning bolts by ''stepping out of the way'' is rational, Rikku's reaction is considered to be well over the top by the rest of the party during the storyline.
* Shion in ''[[Xenosaga (Video Game)|Xenosaga]]'' is traumatized by lightning because her fiancé and parents were both killed during thunderstorms. This also appeared in the anime adaptation of the game.
* Despite the subversion in the novel, this is played straight in ''[[Dynasty Warriors]] 4'' in one of the Shu Endings. Liu Bei is eating with Guan Yu and Zhang Fei when a bolt of lightning strikes, causing Liu Bei to dive under the table in panic while Guan Yu and Zhang Fei Watch.
 
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* An episode of ''[[Scooby -Doo (Animationanimation)|Shaggy and Scooby-Doo Get A Clue]]'' revealed that both the villain and Scooby have lightning issues. Phibes apparently gets so upset that his prosthetic laser gun is fired off when he so much as hears the word "lightning". His plot of the episode revolves around creating a never-ending thunderstorm, thus leaving the ''severely'' astraphobic Scooby as a paranoid wreck. Since the lightning bolts are apparently violent and can strike anything, Scooby actually has justification for this. Shaggy drags him along to stop the storm anyway.
* In both an original storybook and an episode based on it, Franklin Turtle was afraid of thunderstorms. He was worried that his friends would make fun of him, since in most other matters he was normally pretty courageous, but they turned out to be quite understanding.
* Lola on ''[[Charlie and Lola (Literature)|Charlie and Lola]]''.
* Subverted on ''[[DextersDexter's Laboratory (Animation)|Dexters Laboratory]]'', while laying in his bed during a thundertorm, Dexter dismisses his initial fear by reminding himself of the science behind lightening.
* Dudley from ''[[Tuff Puppy]]'' is afraid of thunder. He got over it the same episode that it was introduced.
* In ''[[The Venture Brothers (Animation)|The Venture Brothers]]'', Dean contemplates living with Dr. Orpheus, fantasizing that he's comforting Triana when she's scared of a storm.
* Martha and Skits from ''[[Martha Speaks]]'' are both afraid of thunderstorms. Martha deals with it better than Skits does.
 
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